We have written before about the assortment of textures that come together to make Lisbon’s skate spots. In just the opening minutes of Lucas Marques’ part in Call Me When U Get Home, you encounter an asphalt lump into a sliver of diamond-plate, a brick volcano outlined by cobblestones, plus a line that starts with grinding on glass and ends with a wallride on marble. Next, you’ll notice they don’t even bother hitting the more perfect famous spots recognizable to outsiders. Feels like they’re leaving those to us tourists. Where’s the …friction?
Call Me When U Get Home is the latest full-length video from Leonardo Beazotto, who has been the lensman behind some of the best Portugal and Brazil-based videos to float through the Free Skate Mag front page in recent years. His latest features parts from Lucas Marques, Leo Favaro, Henrique Crobelatti, Matheus Lima, Wellington Oliveira and appearances from others — all filmed over the past ~year-and-a-half. The end result could only be described as a survey of one of the funnest-looking scenes in skateboarding right now. It has the same flight time as flying to the west coast from JFK, fwiw ;)